Overview
Kristin Stephens-Martinez's research lies at the intersection of education and computer science, focusing on using data available in large classrooms. Her focus is on scaling classes, such as how do we add more students to a class without sacrificing quality? She pursues this research by examining data from course tools to find interpretable data-driven insights that inform learning interventions.
She is also the creator and host of The CS-Ed Podcast and writes a blog on teaching.
Office Hours
My office is in LSRC D224. See my class pages' (linked on my website) for this semester's office hours.
Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of the Practice of Computer Science
·
2024 - Present
Computer Science,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Scholarly Works
Adapting an Ecological Belonging Intervention to an Introductory Computer Science Course
Journal article ACM Transactions on Computing Education · December 31, 2026 Background and Context . Prior research has shown that students’ sense of belonging and self-efficacy are linked to their long-term performance and persistence in the ... Full text CiteHow Shared Gender Identity with Teaching Assistants Relates to Student Outcomes in an Undergraduate Algorithms Course
Conference SIGCSE TS 2026 Proceedings of the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V 1 · February 17, 2026 Background and Context. An ongoing thread in computing education research is how to increase women’s participation in computing. One potential way is to improve their sense of belonging, as prior research has found that individuals’ sense of belonging is r ... Full text CiteConnecting Computing Students’ External Help Resource Preferences and Internal Help Resource Usage: 2021-2025
Conference SIGCSE TS 2026 Proceedings of the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V 1 · February 17, 2026 Background and Context. Academic help-seeking from both internal (course-affiliated) and external resources is a key part of computing students’ learning. The recent emergence of Generative AI (GenAI) tools has substantially transformed students’ help-seek ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Collaborative Research: Characterizing and empowering student success when traversing the academic help landscape
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2027IIS: Small: Helping Novices Learn and Debug Relational Queries
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2024CUE: Collaborative Research: Effective Peer Teaching Across Computing Pathways
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2023View All Grants
Education
University of California, Berkeley ·
2017
Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley ·
2013
M.S.